Quote: Mark @ March 31, 2007, 10:58 AM

p.s. If you like Not Going Out watch out for Lee Mack on Radio 2 - he's not on at the moment but when he is there's some good stuff in that.

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I'm not sure liking NGO and Lee Mack go hand in hand but I'm looking forward to seeing more characters which should help the storylines.

Quote: David H @ September 7, 2007, 10:08 AM

Watched the first series and although there were some good jokes in there it felt much more like one long stand-up routine than a sitcom.

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Exactly my view, although having seen the shite that's been coming out of late I'm actually looking forward to this one. I don't know if that's a compliment or not

 

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Quote: David H @ September 7, 2007, 10:08 AM

Watched the first series and although there were some good jokes in there it felt much more like one long stand-up routine than a sitcom.

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That's actually what I like about it.
 

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Brilliant episode loads of laugh out loud moments. I think I prefer Sally Breton as the female. The only thing I didn't like was the over the top breaking of the door when the cleaner left.
 

Yes, I prefer her as a female as well.
 

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I bet you do. Rawr.
 

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I would just like to announce that we all saw Lee's bum today.


*Dear diary....*


 

Sorry 'bout that, get a bit carried away sometimes.
 

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Quote: zooo @ September 7, 2007, 11:14 PM

I would just like to announce that we all saw Lee's bum today.


*Dear diary....*

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That was one of the episodes I saw on the read-through night I went to. When he said he'd be nude, I instantly though "Laura will love that".
 

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Ha!
Am so predictable.
 

I watch this because I play a game called guess the jokes, if you can't see 95% of them coming then you obviously ain't a comedian. If you saw John McCrewick's tits coming then you need some help.

Having said that I like the show
 

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Watching the show is so annoying.
Afterwards there's always about 6 excellent jokes I desperately want to remember, but there was such a barrage of them I can't remember a thing.
 

Quote: ajp29 @ September 8, 2007, 1:50 AM

I watch this because I play a game called guess the jokes, if you can't see 95% of them coming then you obviously ain't a comedian.

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I do that too. It's great when you think of a punchline that's funnier than theirs.


I haven't watched last night's episode yet, because, although I was supossed to be not going out, a friend called, and I did.

On a shallow note, I'm looking forward to seeing Lee's botty. And... I can pause it! Yay!
 

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i really liked this. it was very well written.
its good to see sitcoms like this and IT crowd putting laughs before plot and character development.
very funny.
 

Quote: johnny roulette @ September 8, 2007, 8:56 AM

i really liked this. it was very well written.
its good to see sitcoms like this and IT crowd putting laughs before plot and character development.
very funny.

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It's watchable, there's a good joke here and there, but there is no depth. If they don't want to make sitcoms with plots and character development do a sketch show. I can appreciate how well they've done to cram ten jokes into every minute but it's very unrealistic and again, like the IT Crowd, you don't know who the people are. You can't put a handle on them like you can with great sitcoms.

You look at someone like Danny Devito. You see him and his size and think that's pretty funny. But then you build a character for him where he thinks he's a hot shot with the women and the laughter can increase ten fold because you've done the groundwork. These characters in all three shows shown tonight have nothing about them. Their characters have not been built up so you know how they think. They need to go back to basics.
 

I thought last night's episode took a while to get going but, when it did, the show was great. It's the obvious wordplay that no one else seems to have actually thought of that makes me laugh - "you don't mill wind".

As David said - character development is a little slow but, in the show's defence, Andrew Collins has indicated that's something they'll be doing more of as the series goes along. Personally I couldn't care less - I quite like the characters just being gag machines.

Did anyone else think Lee Mack looked knackered though?
 

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